Originally Posted by Deejay Originally Posted by

We recently added one of our most popular player requested features to Heroes of Newerth, match confirmations. The goal of this was to improve match quality by reducing the amount of games started with players being AFK, effectively ruining any strategic aspect of the picking phase. As always, whenever we add a large feature, we monitor feedback and statistics.





The statistics show that the amount of time in queue until a player joins a game has increased ~50%, with ~39% of matches not being accepted. Both of these numbers are unacceptably high.





We've heard your feedback on this issue as well. While most players understand what we were trying to accomplish with this feature, they don't like the increased length in queue times.





Given both of these, we've decided to disable match confirmations for now.





We'll continue trying to improve Heroes of Newerth, and we always appreciate your feedback.